Photograph of Charles Darwin by Maull and Polyblank for the Literary and Scientific Portrait Club (1855)

Looks like we should all give the people of Georgia a little bit more credit. Via Raw Story:

Controversial U.S. Congressman Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) could be facing competition in this falls election from an unexpected quarter, a British naturalist who has been dead for 130 years, Charles Darwin, the so-called father of the theory of evolution. According to the Associated Press, University of Georgia scientists and conservative talk-radio host Neil Boortz have found themselves to be unlikely allies in an effort to boost Darwin as a write-in candidate for voters who want to lodge a protest against the ultra-conservative Broun.

James Leebens-Mack, the UGA plant biologist who started a Facebook page supporting Darwin against Broun, told Raw Story in an interview, “Quite a few folks independently came up with the idea to start a write-in campaign, very conservative and very liberal.”

Leebens-Mack said that he’d be happy if write-ins for Darwin would constitute 1 percent of the vote, which he feels would be enough “to let both the Democratic and Republican parties know that we’re not happy that Paul Broun is our only choice in the 10th Congressional District of Georgia.”

The professor, who declined to give his own party affiliation, said that the bipartisan protest arose separately from the campaign organized by Boortz, the Atlanta-based radio host, who has a massive following among Georgia conservatives. Boortz told listeners that ideologues like Broun are bad for the Republican Party, and that they make conservatives “look like knee-dragging, still-tending, tobacco-spitting Neanderthals.”…

Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) is a politician
all politicians say whatever they think their audience will like
if he was courting other types of voters he’s say other types of things
like when Obama blasted NFTA
and then called the Canadians to explain it was just campaign rhetoric

not that Braown or Obummer shouldn’t be voted out
but their replacements will work for the elites regardless

Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) is a politician
all politicians say whatever they think their audience will like
if he was courting other types of voters he’s say other types of things
like when Obama blasted NFTA
and then called the Canadians to explain it was just campaign rhetoric

not that Braown or Obummer shouldn’t be voted out
but their replacements will work for the elites regardless